Well yes I was served that exact meal as I took the photo! I can tell you that I found it to be one of the best inflight meals i've had onboard a charter airline. I think the problem is that in all honesty, you don't like your onions!

First Choice is making a great deal of effort to improve their onboard air product. Everything, of course, except the seat pitch within Europe. If you are a midget, then you are fine. If you are six feet tall, then you need to understand the concept of flexion.

However, on their long haul flights, supposedly, they are pulling out seats and going to 33" seat pitch in their regular Y class and upgrading their premium class to 36" of seat pitch with a business class like meal for a small surcharge. From what I have seen of what they are planning to serve on those flights, it looks one heck of a lot better than normal British fare and heck, if you've flown BA across the pond to the Caribbean, its 31" and you need a chiropractor when you arrive.

I would say if the onions didn't set well with you, that's a GI problem and not something that is for this forum. Find a medical forum to post this on...it might make for more interesting reading.

Quoting Orion737 (Reply 4):Fairly typical of the 'dumbing' down on charter flights. A few years prior Air 2000 served Smoked samlmon pinwheels, Bouef Bourginone and croquette potatoes and a fresh fruit consomme.

Now its bangers and mash on FCA! Plus they charge you extra for it.

Having said that, perhaps bangers and mash are more suited to the FCA customer than boef bourginonne?

Fairly typical of the drive to cut costs in an ultra competitive market place more like.

To be honest that looks a lot better than I wouldhave expected from a charter carrier in today's market. Think yourself lucky.

Just when I thought I could see light at the end of the tunnel, it was some B*****d with a torch bringing me more work

FCA do good in flight catering, i've never had any complaints, compared to TUI/Thomsonfly, when I last flew with them, my drink was still frozen lol You can choose whether you want to pay extra for meals nowadays anyway. I'm flying Long Haul with FCA to Sanford next year, I've never had any complaints with them before, and their new Star Service incentive is sweet , I won some bubbly for guessing how many bags were on the aircraft, wasn't too complicated if you knew the a/c type and capacity he he

Quoting Orion737 (Reply 20):They deserve a good slagging off, considering their cuts to service in recent years!

You'd rather see them go bust? They are changing, because the times are changing. Monarch being a prime example of this. They were losing out to the likes of easyJet and Ryanair so now are having to offer more and more scheduled flights.

When you hear the noise of the Tartan Army Boys, we'll be coming down the road!

Quoting Orion737 (Reply 20):Gkirk, do not feel sorry for charter airlines! They deserve a good slagging off, considering their cuts to service in recent years!

Yes, they are also a business in the 21st Century now, not just there to remind people of the 'good old days'. Personally, if cutting out free meals on flights means they can remain competetive and I still get a decent price for 2 weeks in the sun then i'm happy. If I want an inflight meal so badly, I will happilly pay £5 extra each way, you do have a choice Orion so whats the big deal? If the food is that bad in your opinion, then its a good job its not included in the flight for you then! (although I know you would eat it anyway )

Mark

Take a ride...fly across the sky

25 MarshalN
: I believe it's basically the same as "sausage", although I'm sure there's some subtle intricate detail that makes them completely different, but I do

26 Orion737
: I pay for one and eat it. It gives me something to moan about and I like to see what they are passing off as a 3 course in-flight meal these days. By